Elective: Business Partnering and Financial Modelling

Combine your technical and professional expertise with practical business partnering and financial modelling approaches

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In Brief

  • Use business partnering and financial modelling to help solve business problems and support business decision-making
  • Practise in real-world, simulated experiences
  • Work towards your Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting[

Subject description

Business Partnering and Financial Modelling equips you to integrate your technical and professional skills with best-practice approaches to financial modelling and finance business partnering. You’ll develop finance business partnering skills, including skills in communication, collaboration and influencing, to enhance business outcomes.

You’ll explore best practice financial modelling principles to ensure that the inputs and assumptions used to create financial models produce relevant, value-adding outcomes. Throughout the subject, you’ll develop the skills and knowledge needed to ensure that financial models are robust, flexible and transparent, and to critically evaluate existing financial models to determine their usefulness and identify opportunities for improvement.

You’ll also practise applying professional judgement when working with financial models and communicating insights to stakeholders. This will enable you to contribute to solving business problems and support business decision-making.

Topics covered

  • Finance business partnering and financial modelling
  • Modelling best practices
  • Review a financial model
  • Design and build a financial model

Subject learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, you will be able to:

  1. Apply technical and professional skills to analyse how financial modelling can contribute to business decisions
  2. Analyse and critically evaluate existing financial models to determine their ability to produce a desired or intended result
  3. Apply best practice financial modelling principles to assist business decision-making
  4. Apply finance business partnering skills including communication, collaboration and influencing skills to enhance business outcomes 

Course structure and format

This 7-week course is one of several elective subjects for the Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting.

Enjoy supported learning via an online learning platform and interactive resources, featuring:

  • Online communities for networking with peers
  • Technical discussion forums with specialist Chartered Accountants
  • Peer Discussion forums
  • Comprehensive study materials and assessment preparation resources
  • Real-world case studies, examples and activities.

What you need to know

  • Required software

    Microsoft Excel Desktop

    You should have access to the desktop version of Microsoft Excel to complete this course. The activities and assessment in this course may require Excel features and tools that are not available in the web version.

  • Prior Knowledge

    If you are enrolled in this subject, you are expected to have met the course entry requirements for the CA Program.

    CA Program entry requirements

Important subject download

Please note: The course information shown here is indicative only. For each term, the official subject outline, including reading materials, assessment requirements, and other key details, will be provided to enrolled students through the My Capability Learn portal. The official subject outline may contain updates or changes to the information displayed here and serves as the authoritative reference for all course matters. 

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